Gun control laws should not be strengthened‚ instead they should be enforced. Instead of making it harder for law-abiding citizens to obtain guns‚ guns should be taken away from unstable individuals or people who should not have guns like criminals. The first reason why gun control should not be strengthened is that citizens have the right to own guns; it is one of those entitlements that makes the United States different from other countries. Secondly‚ criminals are criminals and that is why they
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Nathan 3/30/08 Gun Control in America Ever since the days of the pioneers‚ firearms have been an element of the American tradition as defense and a means of hunting or activity. As we progress through the 21st century the use of guns has changed significantly. The reason that the use of the gun is changing is fast and steady increase in crime and the battle for the right to have possession of a hand gun‚ the introduction of legislation for gun control‚ to try to decrease the felony in the
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Control Generally‚ firearms are clustered into three broad categories; handguns‚ shotguns‚ and rifles. Basing on data production from the manufacturers of firearms‚ roughly there are 371 million firearms privately owned by citizens and domestic law enforcement in the United States (The National Research Council‚ pg. 57). The American persistent gun culture results from its revolutionary roots‚ colonial history‚ the second amendment‚ and frontier expansion. According to the second amendment; “A well-regulated
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mass shooting in the U.S.‚ the subject of gun safety has once again been brought into the spotlight. The numbers of crimes involving guns are increasing more and more because of how easy it is to have one. Thousands of people die each year in handgun related incidents in the U.S. and daily citizens can’t manage such a powerful thing. These tragic events serve as reminders that stricter gun control policies should be enforced to ensure public safety. Gun control in this country is not what it should
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English Composition I November 30‚ 2013 Argumentative Essay To Strengthen Gun Control or Not Gun control is an issue that is much talked about in the United States of America. Events that took place recently such as the shooting in the Sandyhook Elementary school and the shooting in the showing of “The Dark Knight Rises‚” have made the government rethink whether or not the gun control laws‚ or their lack of gun control laws at that‚ are strict enough. Although these tragic events took place‚
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Gun Control in America On March 24‚ 1998‚ firing from the woods overlooking their school‚ 13-year-old Andrew Golden and 11-year-old Mitchell Johnson shot and killed four middle school students and a teacher and injured ten other students in Jonesboro‚ Arkansas. The two boys had a semiautomatic M-1 carbine with a large ammunition magazine‚ two other rifles‚ seven handguns and more than 500 rounds of ammunition which they took from the home of one of the boy?s grandfather‚ who had a large arsenal
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No to Gun Control; Yes to the Second Amendment The second amendment of the constitution states‚ “A well regulated Militia‚ being necessary to the security of a free State‚ the right of the people to keep and bear Arms‚ shall not be infringed” (cornell.edu). The purpose of our founding fathers making this was to ensure the protection of the individual person. Banning semi-automatic weapons will have several negative effects on the well being of this country. The government cannot protect every
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The Effectiveness of Gun Control Will banning guns prevent crimes? In my opinion it will not. Regardless of how the government attempts to ban guns‚ people will find illegal ways to obtain it‚ as it is not hard to get them illegally. On December 19‚ 2012‚ Jeff McMahan published an opinion page on New York Times called “Why Gun ‘Control’ is Not Enough.” Jeff McMahan is a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of “The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life” and
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Gun Control: Overview The issue of gun control has been debated for a long time‚ probably ever since they were invented. The gun is a small‚ rather easy to obtain‚ weapon that is lethal if used in the right (or wrong) way. This makes the gun an extremely dangerous factor in our lives. If used improperly‚ a gun could be lethal to not only the target‚ but the user as well. The availability of guns has sky rocketed in the past decade or so‚ and the immense population of guns in our society make it
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feels the necessity to have a certain control over guns in the country. President Barack Obama tried to introduce in congress a universal background check that could not pass. Why Congress could
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